Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 2630845

Reference: WO372/12

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D3644932
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2633624

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 5485931

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

Connected by: Bill2733

UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/002180/070

Additional: S/N 3103 matches his death penny

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 5488997

Title: Pte. John Duncan Leitch

Description: John in uniform this is the only photo we have of him in uniform

Connected by: Bill2733

Additional: John D Leitch is my wife's Great G Grandfather KIA / MIA July 15 1917

Source information

ID: 5489032

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Bill2733

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0165412

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 5489181

Title: Personal Knowledge of Bill Wiencek

Description: This is being used as evidence based on a members personal knowledge.

Connected by: Bill2733

Additional: This is being used as evidence based on a members personal knowledge.

Source information

ID: 7528344

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1640784/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/876780

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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